6.28.2005

Knowledge Management: No Such Thing As A Knowledge Worker
For those who manage well, there is a bright and prosperous future. For those who are managed, the future-certainly the income prospects-are not so bright.
Visual Cognition Lab
Videos on cognition and stimuli.
Tools for collaboration
How do you pick the 'best' tool for collaboration when attention shifts, activities change and engagement exhibits a rhythm?
Biased Brains
"There is nothing more painful for me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start to think about robbery, and then look around and see it's somebody white and feel relieved. How humiliating," explained civil rights and political activist Reverend Jesse Jackson in an interview in November, 1993.

6.25.2005

iPods for Learning
Do iPods have any any value in a corporate training setting?
A Conversation with Alva Noe (audio)
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Dr. Alva Noe, professor of philosophy at UC, Berkeley and the author of "Action in Perception." They talk about the nature of perception, and how philosophy is quickly meshing with cognitive science.
Social bookmarking in the enterprise
The idea to take the concept of social bookmarking and turn it into more than just a bookmark saving service, such as a way to clip and save articles and provide a way for users to save articles and publish them on portlets within the corporate portal.
VidBlogging & Blogcasting
David Weinberger, the Cluetrain guy is posting video interviews with the blogerati of the Supernnova 2005 conference. It is being referred to as "blogcasting."

6.19.2005

Going Visual (podcast)
Dr. Moira Gunn speaks with Alexis Gerard and Bob Goldstein, authors of "Going Visual -- Using Images to Enhance Productivity, Decision-Making and Profits," about the next generation of all our organizations.
Steve Jobs @ Stanford
On Sunday (June 12) Steve Jobs gave the commencement speech at Stanford University to its 5,000 graduates.
p.o.d.c.a.s.t.
The debate over the word "podcast" is still going on
Turning Knowledge Into Power
They say knowledge is power but, if that were the case, academics would rule the world. Knowledge in itself is not power; rather the application of knowledge is where power lies.

6.18.2005

It's iPod's Revolution: We Just Live in It
It's hard to recall any branded recreational product that ever carried the cultural oomph that the iPod now has.
Who Knows Whom, And Who Knows What?
Employees' personal connections can be as valuable as their individual knowledge base. Social network analysis, or SNA, helps maximize a company's collective smarts.
Learning innovations
US Naval Education and Training Command and the Defence Acquisition University's symposium on "Innovations in E-learning."

6.13.2005

Is Social
Networking Broken?
Super-hyped social networking is exploding, with new ways to link up to others being added daily.
Make ebooks for your iPod guide
There's a somewhat little know and often-unused function of iPod called "Notes" which can actually be quite handy for storing and reading text, creating a locked "kiosk mode", quizzes, games as well a full-length ebooks.
Learning to enjoy e-learning
We used to talk about being either on campus, or you are traditional distance, or you might be one of those few people who is just working online. That is all converging now.
A Success Story That's Hard to Duplicate
Upward mobility requires what sociologists describe as the twin pillars of success: human capital and social capital. Human capital is a person's education, job credentials and employability. Social capital usually means emotional support and encouragement from a reliable stakeholder in one's life.

6.11.2005

Ivy League E-Learning
How eCornell helps Cornell University translate and enrich the classroom experience for purposes of online executive and professional education.
How Humble BBS Begat Wired World
Before America Online, Friendster, forums and blogs, geeks communicated with one another in a clunky and pedestrian way that was the precursor to all subsequent forms of online communication.
Capturing Knowledge
A crisis is brewing as more companies face a knowledge drain from the number of baby boomers planning to retire soon.
ASTD Study: Learning Programs Have High Yield
Companies that invest in employee learning have higher productivity, revenue growth, and profit growth than companies that do not.
Oh Yes, It's Devo: An Interview with Jerry Casale
The band Devo is definitely worthy of the term "enigma". To most, they are the 1980s band that produced the hit "Whip It".

6.01.2005

Human Performance: If you don't find it often, you often don't find it
In some sequences of images, an item would be present half the time, and the volunteers missed only 7 percent of them. But when the item appeared only 10 times in every 1,000 images, their error rate rocketed to 30 percent.
The Education Podcast Network
The Education Podcast Network is "an effort to bring together into one place, the wide range of podcast programming that may be helpful to teachers.
Screencasting Del.icio.us
Tags? Organic metatags? Del.ioci.us? Folksonomies? Self-organizing ontologies? Huh?
The Power of Design
The evidence of design's power is everywhere. It's apparent in the mere fact that the bar has been raised. Customers expect, even demand, more from the design of everything they buy.